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...California's McAdoo, Nebraska's Norris, New York's Wagner, Missouri's Clark and Montana's Wheeler uprose to chime assent. No Senator raised his voice in objection. No Senator knows when he himself may be heading an investigation, needing all the power he can command...
Clearer than any handwriting on the wall is the ballot in the Senior class election. At the bottom of that document the glove is flung down to the unwary voter: "DO YOU APPROVE OF THE CLASS CONSTITUTION?" Following this challenge there is a small box in which one's assent is to be given. Assent, indeed, but what of the man who does not approve? Either the Student Council believes such subversiveness impossible in a Harvard student, or else feels secure enough in the saddle so as to brook no opposition...
...pleasure," the Dodo began once again, now standing on one foot and loosening its collar with the other, "that befalls me on this celebration of the one hundred and fourth anniversary A. D. (and here he paused looking over to the Dormouse who, though eyes closed, nodded assent) of our beloved author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, alias Lewis Carroll, to pay him homage for the joy he has given to millions of people...
...guiding rule of France's foreign policy is to provide as many alies as possible in the advent of a much-feared German invasion," stated William L. Langer '15, associate professor of History, at Dunster House last night, commenting on France's assent to the British request for military co-operation in the Mediterranean under a condition of reciprocity...
Emperor Power of Trinity sat drawnfaced with his two pet dogs frisking about his feet as Fat Chaps & Lean Chaps concluded their work and Ethiopia's elaborate Seal of The Conquering Lion of Judah was affixed in token of His Majesty's assent. What had he done? It all depended on who Fat Chaps' backers really are. Every undeveloped country is fair game for plausible promoters who go about hinting that they represent du Pont, or De Beers or Krupp. Last week Francis M. Rickett said that his backers were Standard Oil and British capitalists whom...